Shelby Harris Quotes About Insomnia

Quotes about: Insomnia

• We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natural function, after about the third day to start catching up and you get a little bit more sleep the third night. And that's usually what I tell my patients.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

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• So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.

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  Insomnia, Different, Looks

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• So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Numbers

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• So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So what we'll tend to do in our sleep lab is we'll do a thorough evaluation and we usually have myself, who is a Psychologist and a Sleep Behavioral Sleep Specialist, I treat the patients first.

  Shelby Harris

  Pain, Sleep, Insomnia

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• Well, the actual function of the brain, not so sure yet. There's a lot of different theories about it, but when you talk about psychologically in your brain, a lot of people with insomnia, though not all, report that they can't turn their minds off.

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  Insomnia, People, Brain

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• We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.

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  Insomnia, People, Trying

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• In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Patient

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• Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept at all in three days; if we actually take them into a lab, most of the time we actually do see they're sleeping on and off here and there.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Here And There

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• When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Worry

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• There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we definitely want to treat whatever else is going on, but insomnia often because it becomes its own diagnosis and that requires its own treatment.

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  Kids, Insomnia, Want

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